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1-Making Forecasts of Extreme Rainfall and Managing their Consequences for Flood Forecasting.

Collier, Chris G. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

During extreme rainfall events reliance cannot be placed upon local measurements of rainfall or river flow as hydrometric networks may be destroyed. Therefore, forecasting procedures are increasingly dependent upon remote ...
10-Assessment of Mean Aerial Precipitation Estimation Methods on Natural Watersheds under Varying Geographic and Topographic Terrains across Canada.

Panu, U. S.; Smaglinskie, Darryl; Pereira, Larry (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Estimation of Mean Aerial Precipitation (MAP) is a key component in hydrologic studies. The precipitation amounts at raingauges are used to estimate MAP. Modern estimation techniques of MAP have shifted toward computer ...
11-Thiessen—Software for Automatic Estimation of Weighted Average Rainfall.

Panigrahy, N.; Jain, Sharad K.; Kumar, Vijay; Bhunya, P. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Estimation of average areal rainfall from point measurements is the first most important step in hydrological modelling. The Thiessen polygon method is commonly used for the purpose. This paper presents the development and ...
12-Geostatistical Analysis of Extreme Rainfalls of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Murthy, B. R. Krishna; Abbaiah, G. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Rainfall is a hydrological phenomenon that varies in magnitude in space as well as in time and requires suitable tools to predict values in space and time. The identification of spatial rainfall pattern is an essential ...
13-Prediction of Rainfall in West Bengal for the Next Two Years.

Choudhury, J. Pal; Chakrabrty, Kalyan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The rainfall plays a major role in agricultural field that generates various agricultural products that generates revenue through marketing not only in Indian market, but also through export in foreign markets. It also ...
14-Pore-Scale Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology to Obtain Soil Hydraulics Properties.

Chan, T. P.; Govindaraju, Rao S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Evaluation of the hysteretic drainage and wetting phenomena exhibited by porous media is relevant to many branches of science and engineering. In subsurface hydrology, these processes play a particularly important role in ...
15-Evapotranspiration in Hydrological Modeling.

Xu, Chong-Yu; Singh, V. P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Potential evaporation is one of the important inputs to hydrological models and actual evapotranspiration is one of the important output components of hydrological models. In general evapotranspiration provides the second ...
16-Comparison of Newly Proposed Copais Approach and Traditional Reference Evapotranspiration Equations in a Small Catchment.

Remesan, Renji; Shamim, Muhammad Ali; Han, Dawei (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Reference crop evapotranspiration (ET0) is a key influential factor in many agricultural and hydrological projects. Alexandris and Kerkides (2003) and Alexandris et al. (2006) proposed a new empirical formula for hourly ...
17-Determination of Unsaturated Soil Parameters from Infiltration Experiment Using Inverse Procedure.

Chandramouli, P. N.; Hariprasad, K. S.; Ojha, C. S. P.; Gopal, Talari Venkata (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The inverse problem of determining unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from one-dimensional, transient infiltration event is analyzed. Hydraulic properties are assumed to be described by Van Genucheten's (1980) model. ...
18-Effective Soil Hydraulic Parameter Estimation at Different Spatial Scales.

Mohanty, Binayak P.; Das, Narendra N.; Jana, Raghavendra B.; Ines, Amor V. M. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

A review of multiple approaches to the problem of soil hydraulic parameter estimation at different spatial scales is presented. Methods reviewed include traditional bottom-up approaches, as well as newer top-down approaches ...
19-Assessment of Evapotranspiration Estimation Methods in a Semi Arid Region.

Khodke, U. M.; Gundekar, H. G. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Estimation of accurate reference crop evapotranspiration (ET)) is necessary for a reliable irrigation management system. This paper deals with evaluation of seven reference crop evapotranspiration (ET0) methods viz. 1982 ...
2-The Influence of the Land Surface on Hydrometeorology and Ecology - New Advances from Modelling and Satellite Remote Sensing.

Hong, Seungbum; Lakshmi, Venkat; Small, Eric E.; Chen, Fei (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The importance of land surface processes has long been recognized in hydrometeorology and ecology for they play a key role in climate and weather modeling. However their quantification has been challenging due to the complex ...
20-Infiltration Processes and Soil Moisture Dynamics.

Manfreda, Salvatore; Caylor, Kelly K.; Scanlon, Todd M. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The description of soil moisture dynamics is a challenging problem for the hydrological community, as it is governed by complex interactions between climate, soil and vegetation. Recent research has achieved significant ...
21-Application of Shallow Water Equations Models for Water Hazards Problem.

Unami, Koichi; Kawachi, Toshihiko; Miyauchi, Ayako (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The Shallow Water Equations (SWEs) are applicable to vast range of practical problems where water flows dominantly in the horizontal directions. The finite volume method is effective for numerically solving the SWEs in ...
22-A State-of-the-Art of the SCS-CN Methodology.

Babu, P. Suresh; Mishra, S. K.; Singh, Vijay P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Any new development of an alternative (or innovation) to extend, generalize, or to improve a methodology requires an understanding of its state-of-the-art. This understanding entails a critical review of historical ...
23-Dam Break Flood Simulation in Natural Floodplain Topography with 1D and 2D Numerical Models.

Sakia, Mimi Das; Sarma, Arup Kumar (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Floods due to failure of dams induce widespread damages to life and property owing to its high magnitude and unpredictable sudden occurrence. The response time for such flood is quite small compared to natural floods. ...
24-Artificial Neural Network Modelling of Tawi River Basin.

Agarwal, Avinash; Ahmad, Tanvear; Singh, R. D. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The rainfall-runoff process is a highly non-linear complex process due the spatial and temporal variability of precipitation patterns and watershed characteristics. The understanding and modelling of rainfall-runoff ...
25-Rainfall Runoff Modelling Using Fuzzy Rule Based Approach.

Lohani, A. K.; Goel, N. K.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

The problem of transformation of rainfall into runoff has been a subject of scientific investigations throughout the evolution of the subject of hydrology. A number of investigators have tried to relate runoff with the ...
26-. Predicting Varied Kinematic Roughness Parameter during Storm Durations under Ungauged Catchment Situations .

Gaur, M. L.; Mathur, B. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Effective overland roughness happens to be the key parameter of Kinematic Wave (KW) models, which truly govern's the overall success of model application in terms of surface runoff simulations. Most of the researchers ...
27-Modeling Urban Flooding from Storm Sewers Using Dynamic Wave Theory.

Mukhopadhyay, Biswajit; Dutta, Aniruddha; Nouri, Fariborz; Kaushik, Chitranjan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)

Traditionally, urban storm sewers, meant to convey excess runoff from impervious covers efficiently, are designed with the applications of rational formula of hydrology with all of the conceptual limitations of the method. ...

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